Donella H. Meadows

Dr. Donella H. Meadows (1941-2001) (Ph.D. in biophysics, Harvard University), "the founder of the Sustainability Institute, was a professor at Dartmouth College, a long-time organic farmer, a journalist, and a systems analyst. She was honored both as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment and as a MacArthur Fellow.

"For 16 years Donella wrote a weekly column called "The Global Citizen," commenting on world events from a systems point of view. It appeared in more than twenty newspapers, won second place in the 1985 Champion-Tuck national competition for outstanding journalism in the fields of business and economics, received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991.

"Donella was the author or co-author of nine books, including:"


 * The Limits to Growth (1972) (coauthored with Dennis Meadows)
 * The Electronic Oracle: Computer Models and Social Decisions (1983)
 * The Global Citizen (1991)
 * Beyond the Limits (1992)
 * The Limits to Growth - the 30 Year Update (2004)

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